תִּמֹרָה
palm ornament
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Absolute 15 times (75%)
- Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute 3 times (15%)
- Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct 1 time (5%)
- Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct 1 time (5%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 20 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H8561 appears — 16 distinct verses across 3 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
1 Kings 4 verses
- 1 Kings 6:29 וְ/תִֽמֹרֹ֔ת conj + n c fp He carved all the walls of the house round about with carved figures of cherubim and palm trees and open flowers, inside and outside.
- 1 Kings 6:32 וְ/תִמֹר֛וֹת הַ/תִּֽמֹר֖וֹת conj + n c fp ptcl def.art + n c fp So [he made] two doors of olive-wood; and he carved on them carvings of cherubim and palm trees and open flowers, and overlaid them with gold; and he spread the gold on the cherubim, and on the palm trees.
- 1 Kings 6:35 וְ/תִ֣מֹר֔וֹת conj + n c fp He carved [thereon] cherubim and palm trees and open flowers; and he overlaid them with gold fitted on the engraved work.
- 1 Kings 7:36 וְ/תִמֹרֹ֑ת conj + n c fp On the plates of the stays of it, and on the panels of it, he engraved cherubim, lions, and palm trees, according to the space of each, with wreaths round about.
2 Chronicles 1 verse
Ezekiel 11 verses
- Ezekiel 40:16 תִּמֹרִֽים n c fp There were closed windows to the lodges, and to their posts within the gate round about, and likewise to the arches; and windows were round about inward; and on [each] post were palm trees.
- Ezekiel 40:22 ו/תמר/ו וְ/תִ֣מֹרָ֔י/ו conj + n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms conj + n c fp cs + sfx pers 3ms The windows of it, and the arches of it, and the palm trees of it, were after the measure of the gate whose prospect is toward the east; and they went up to it by seven steps; and the arches of it were before them.
- Ezekiel 40:26 וְ/תִמֹרִ֣ים conj + n c fp There were seven steps to go up to it, and the arches of it were before them; and it had palm trees, one on this side, and another on that side, on the posts of it.
- Ezekiel 40:31 וְ/תִמֹרִ֖ים conj + n c fp The arches of it were toward the outer court; and palm trees were on the posts of it: and the ascent to it had eight steps.
- Ezekiel 40:34 וְ/תִמֹרִ֥ים conj + n c fp The arches of it were toward the outer court; and palm trees were on the posts of it, on this side, and on that side: and the ascent to it had eight steps.
- Ezekiel 40:37 וְ/תִמֹרִ֥ים conj + n c fp The posts of it were toward the outer court; and palm trees were on the posts of it, on this side, and on that side: and the ascent to it had eight steps.
- Ezekiel 41:18 וְ/תִֽמֹרִ֑ים וְ/תִֽמֹרָה֙ conj + n c fp conj + n c fs It was made with cherubim and palm trees; and a palm tree was between cherub and cherub, and every cherub had two faces;
- Ezekiel 41:19 הַ/תִּֽמֹרָה֙ הַ/תִּֽמֹרָ֖ה ptcl def.art + n c fs ptcl def.art + n c fs so that there was the face of a man toward the palm tree on the one side, and the face of a young lion toward the palm tree on the other side. [thus was it] made through all the house round about:
- Ezekiel 41:20 וְ/הַ/תִּֽמֹרִ֖ים conj + ptcl def.art + n c fp from the ground to above the door were cherubim and palm trees made: thus was the wall of the temple.
- Ezekiel 41:25 וְ/תִֽמֹרִ֔ים conj + n c fp There were made on them, on the doors of the temple, cherubim and palm trees, like as were made on the walls; and there was a threshold of wood on the face of the porch outside.
- Ezekiel 41:26 וְ/תִֽמֹרִים֙ conj + n c fp There were closed windows and palm trees on the one side and on the other side, on the sides of the porch: thus were the side-chambers of the house, and the thresholds.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
At its core, תמר (timmôr) means “palm ornament.” Its uses cluster heavily in Ezekiel (69% of all occurrences). Spanning 16 verses in 3 books, it ranks among the uncommon words of the Hebrew Bible. Scripture first uses it in 1 Kings 6:29. From the same root come תמר, תימרה and תמר. Dig into 16-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H8561 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 16
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 16 distinct verses.
- 3 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 3 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #1,513
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 1,513 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 16 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Ezekiel 11 verses 69%
- 1 Kings 4 verses 25%
- 2 Chronicles 1 verse 6%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 16 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 15 verses · 94%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 6%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Palm trees 13×
- American Standard Version: Palm-trees 12×, Toward the palm-tree 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Palm trees 11×, Were decorated with palm trees 3×, Palm tree 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Palm trees 14×, Palm tree 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H8561 across 19 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H8561 across 19 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H8561 across 19 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H8561 across 19 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- palm tree figure (as ornament)
Word origin
תִּמֹרָה 19 n.f. palm (-tree) figure, as ornament
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from תמר (tâmâr) (H8558) — palm tree.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
תָּמַר
- , Pi. תִּמֵּר (denom. of תָּמָר) to rise straight up. Yoma 28ᵇ תימור של לבנה מְתַמֵּר ועולה כמקל the light-column of the moon rises straight up like a stick; opp. מפציע (v. פָּצַע); Y. ib. III, beg. 40ᵇ. Bab. ib. 38ᵃ של הללו מתמר וכ׳ the smoke of the frankincense prepared by those (of the house of Abṭinas) went straight up &c.; Cant. R. to I, 14 מְתַמֶּרֶת; Y. Shek. V, 49ᵃ top; Tosef. Yoma II, 6. Tanḥ. T’tsav. 15 כשהיה ענן הקטרת מתמר וכ׳ when (on the Day of Atonement) the cloud of the incense rose straight up …, he knew that Israel’s sins were forgiven. Gen. R. s. 45 קוצין … אליהם יוצאים ומְתַמְּרִים וכ׳ thorns are not sown …, but grow forth of themselves and rise high up, but wheat &c.; Yalk. ib. 79 (corr. acc.). Keth. 111ᵇ עתידה חטה שתְּתַמֵּר כדקל וכ׳ in the latter days wheat shall sprout forth and rise like palms on mountain tops; a. e.
תָּמָר I
- (b. h.) pr. n. f. Tamar,
- 1. Judah’s daughter-in-law. Meg. IV, 10 (25ᵃ) מעשה ת׳ נקרא ומיתרגם the story of Tamar (Gen. XXXVIII) is read (in the synagogue) and translated. Gen. R. s. 92 (ref. to Gen. XLIV, 16) מה נאמר לאדני במעשה ת׳ וכ׳ what have we to say to my lord (for our justification) about the story of Tamar, what to speak about the story of Bilhah (Gen. XXXV, 22) ? Gen. R. s. 85; a. fr.— Absalom’s sister. Meg. 25ᵇ מעשה אמנון ות׳ וכ׳ the story of Amnon and Tamar (II Sam. XIII) may be read and translated. Ab. V, 16 אהבת אמנון ות׳ Amnon’s love of T. Snh. 21ᵃ; a. e. e.g. Genesis 38:24
- 3. a woman that informed against the Rabbis before Roman authorities. Y. Meg. III, 74ᵃ bot., v. תַּמְרוּרִים
תָּמָר II
- palm; date-palm; fruit of the date-palm, date. Succ. 45ᵇ; Meg. 14ᵃ, v. לֵב. Ib. (ref. to Jud. IV, 5) מאי שנא תחת תּוֹמֶר why did she hold her sessions under a palm-tree? Midr. Till. to Ps. XCII, 16 (ref. to ib. 13) מה הת׳ והארז וכ׳ as the palm and the cedar are higher than all other trees, so Israel is &c.; אי מה הת׳ וכ׳ you may think, as the palm and the cedar when uprooted from their places (transplanted) do not grow new shoots, so Israel does &c.; a. fr.—Pl. תְּמָרִים dates. Ter. XI, 2 דבש ת׳ date honey. Ib. 3; a. fr. e.g. Judges 4:5
תָּמָר
- Targ. Cant. II, 12.—Lev. R. s. 12; a. e.—Pl. תְּמָרַיָּא, תַּמְרִין, תַּמְרֵי, תּוּמְ׳. Targ. II Chr. XXXI, 5. Targ. Y. Deut. VIII, 8.—Ber. 38ᵃ דובשא דת׳ date-honey. [Ib. האי תמרי של תרומה, read with Ms. M. תמרים של תרומה.] Y. Ab. Zar. II, 40ᵈ גרעינין דתו׳ date-stones. Sabb. 110ᵇ ת׳ פרסייתא (fem.) Persian dates; a. fr.—בר תמרי pr. n. m. Bar-Tamré. Ḥull. 110ᵃ רמי בר ת׳ וכ׳ Rami bar Tamré, also called Bar-Diḳḳulé (cmp. דִּיקּוּלָא).—Cant. R. to VII, 9 אבון בר ת׳ quot. in Levy Talm. Dict. (ed. חסדי).
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 19 distinct written forms H8561 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H8561, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Proper names from this root
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 16 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 16 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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